The Plight of the Slightly Less Filthy Rich

It was announced in the new budget that to deal with the gargantuan national debt from the recession, a 50% tax will be charged to those who earn over £150K a year, and The Times was rightly indignant. After all, the lowest high earners will surely go homeless and starve with a salary reduced from £150K to a measly £75K a year. They won’t be able to buy a Ferrari 599, and will instead be forced to settle for a Ferrari 430. I mean, what I expect most of the rich bastards, most of whom are the very bankers who caused this mess, to be asking right now is ‘why can’t the poor low earners take up the slack? It’s not like they do anything useful, apart from running sanitation and waste disposal, policing the streets, running the shops, growing food, building houses, connecting calls, running power stations etc. It would hardly matter to them if their salaries were halved from a whopping £12K to a sensible £6K a year.’